Introduction HTML

 

Introduction HTML

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and it is the most widely used language to write Web Pages.

Hypertext refers to the way in which Web pages (HTML documents) are linked together. Thus, the link available on a webpage is called Hypertext.

As its name suggests, HTML is a Markup Language which means you use HTML to simply "mark-up" a text document with tags that tell a Web browser how to structure it to display.

Originally, HTML was developed with the intent of defining the structure of documents like headings, paragraphs, lists, and so forth to facilitate the sharing of scientific information between researchers.

Now, HTML is being widely used to format web pages with the help of different tags available in HTML language.

HTML was created by Berners-Lee in late 1991.

In November 1995, HTML version 2.0 was introduced by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). In this version several features such as forms, tables and image maps were added. However this version become obsolete in 2000.

The World Wide Web consortium (W3C) published its first recommendation, HTML 3.2 in 1997.

In same year W3C published HTML version 4.0.

In 1999 the W3C published an enhance version HTML 4.01.

HTML5 was first released in a public-facing form on 22 January 2008, with a major update and "W3C Recommendation" status in October 2014.